Labour costs down 2.8% over 12 months: ABS; FWO welcomes union/employer variation bids; First Fair Work minimum wage ruling tomorrow; and New take home pay forms issued after FWA president amends rules.
The Coalition senator behind last year's Senate resolution requiring FWA head Justice Geoffrey Giudice to appear for questioning at Estimates is unmoved by his plea to reconsider, saying it was "water off a duck's back".
FWA President Justice Geoffrey Giudice in an extraordinary statement has called on the Senate to reconsider a resolution requiring him to appear at Estimates hearings, saying it threatens to undermine public confidence in the tribunal's impartiality.
The Ai Group will this week apply to Fair Work Australia to clarify modern award transitional arrangements, after the Fair Work Ombudsman today rejected the employer body's view that cost increases under the new award regime can be absorbed into over-award payments.
An employer that fears it will be "commercially crippled" if a competitor is allowed to operate under its enterprise agreement has failed in a challenge to the deal's approval, but FWA has left the door open for rivals to contest agreement approvals in some circumstances.
Kennedy and Roberts elected to NUW leadership roles; ABC childcare centres change hands; IR advisor left me in the lurch, says employer; Most believe Abbott will bring back Work Choices; and Super comes out of wages, not profits, says Treasury head.
A court has slammed a Queensland employer's "reprehensible" conduct and ordered it to pay a $11,000 penalty to the LHMU after it deliberately ignored the union's appointment as a bargaining agent and refused to consult it before making an agreement with its employees.
Some 26,000 Westpac group employees will vote for the first time in eight years on an enterprise agreement, after the company and FSU announced this morning that they had achieved an in-principle deal.
Pay a bond before appeal, Federal Court tells sacked employee; Lengthy meeting not enough to show genuinely trying, says FWA; and Company launches fly-free week.
An empowered FWA is at the heart of a bureaucratic bargaining process geared towards making employers and employees agree "whether they really want to or not", according to industrial barrister Frank Parry SC.
